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With Valentine's Day just around the corner it's time to compile our annual list of songs guaranteed to help you score.

Okay, so I've never done this before.

Much like Anchorman's Sex Panther by Odeon, for this list, "60 per cent of the time, it works every time."

Let me know if you disagree or agree with my top ten or have your own "no pants dance" -- again, quoting Anchorman -- anthems.

1. Let's Get it On, Marvin Gaye

The granddaddy of them all. This 1973 gem was written by the then 34-year-old Gaye to his 17-year-old lover. Wrong, yet so right.

BEST LYRIC:

"I'm askin' you baby, to get it on with me."

2. Sexual Healing , Marvin Gaye

The Motown soul singer rises to the occasion again with this 1982 ode to the power of the beast with two backs.

BEST LYRIC:

"Baby, I'm hot just like an oven, I need some lovin'."

3. No Ordinary Love, Sade

The British soul icon wrote this 1992 song about an impossible love and her yearning is overwhelming. And she's a mermaid in the video!

BEST LYRIC:

"I keep crying, I keep trying for you."

4. I'm on Fire, Bruce Springsteen

The Boss is sex-on-a-stick on his 1985 classic. Check out the John Sayles-directed video too in which he plays a car mechanic lusting after a female client.

BEST LYRIC:

"Hey little girl is your daddy home? Did he go away and leave you all alone?"

5. Wicked Game, Chris Isaak

The mournful guitar, the breathy delivery -- Issak gets 'er done with his 1989 heartsick song. Also one of the sexiest videos ever, with Isaak and Helena Christensen rolling around on the sand in black and white as directed by Herb Ritts.

BEST LYRIC:

"I never dreamed that I'd meet somebody like you."

6. Lay Lady Lay, Bob Dylan

Crooning instead of croaking, Dylan is at his sexy best on this 1969 classic that was originally written for the Midnight Cowboy soundtrack but wasn't finished in time, so it went on his own Nashville Skyline album instead.

BEST LYRIC:

"His clothes are dirty but his hands are clean, and you're the best thing that he's ever seen."

7. Somewhere Down the Crazy River, Robbie Robertson

The Canadian singer-songwriter struck sexytime gold with this 1987 song that was actually inspired by the time he spent in Arkansas with former The Band mate Levon Helm. But his smoky-voiced spoken word delivery is killer.

BEST LYRIC:

"She said, 'You like it now, but you'll learn to love it later'."

8. Something, The Beatles

This was George Harrison’s first ever A-side as a Beatle from 1969’s Abbey Road. Many believed it was about his then-wife Pattie Boyd, but he later said he was thinking about Ray Charles. Say what?

BEST LYRIC:

"Something in the way she moves, attracts me like no other lover."

9 . Enigma, Sadeness, (Part 1)

There's Gregorian chanting monks, some French chick speaking and moaning, and a funky beat, on this 1990 largely instrumental song with an appropriately steamy video. On paper, it doesn't sound like solid gold, but in the bedroom it all comes together.

BEST LYRIC:

"Sade - dis moi."

10. Justify My Love, Madonna

Lenny Kravitz and Ingrid Chavez actually co-wrote this 1990 song with Madge in which she speaks or whispers the lyrics, and cavorts with many in the accompanying black-and-white video that was banned by MTV due to scenes of S&M, bisexuality and nudity.

BEST LYRIC:

"Wanting, needing, waiting for you to justify my love."

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